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Monsters of 1935: A Newsreel Farceby  Paul Joseph Mulbrecht
Two buffoonish 'researchers' have convinced the German government that the Loch Ness Monster is actually a mythological Germanic beast (dubbed "The Fat Flounder"). Now they've been given a grant to find the evidence. But their search will fail because of a conspiracy - one between their Loch Ness innkeeper, their guide... and Nessie herself.

Genre: Comedy
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cherry Street Hauntingby  DJ Robbins
June and her sister, Delilah, recount the story of the haunting they encountered on Cherry Street.

Genre: Horror
37 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Just Take a Breathby  Roberta M Roy
New to the newsroom a happily married young woman, struggles to avoid risking her marriage when she experiences an unexpectedly strong attraction to a just met co-worker with whom she will be working regularly. * 2023: Semi Finalist: Dallas Shorts; Nashville Independent Filmmakers Festival; Sydney Indie Shorts Festival; Dallas Movie Awards Festival*

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Faith (The Sanctuary Siege)by  Dewayne C Bricker
During a chaotic hostage standoff, Pastor Jonas stays behind to talk down a wounded veteran demanding proof that God still listens. Their tense exchange strips away ritual and pride, revealing two broken men searching for grace. When SWAT breaches the doors, Jonas shields the gunman and prays aloud for them bothchoosing compassion over fear in the moment that decides their souls.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A-rrhythmiaby  Tigran Vardanyan
A reserved man visits a secluded seaside restaurant, masking his internal turmoil as he prepares for an evening with "guests" who may never arrive, culminating in a haunting act of finality that echoes his quiet despair.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Poor Santaby  Hiabu Hassebu
A family struggles to celebrate Christmas amidst the killer Virus Covid-19.

Genre: Family
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Down to the Wireby  Dexter Williams
A defiant cop gets involved in a race against time to stop two escaped convicts who have taken hostages on a bus rigged to explode.

Genre: Action/Adventure
21 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Driver Sevenby  Elliot Stanton
A vintage car appears like an irresistible purchase, but at what real cost? An unassuming man is convinced to buy a pristine classic car from a mysterious seller. Even though the car is beautiful, it hides a dark and deadly secret that it soon unleashes on its new owner.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Any Face Will Doby  Tim Bechen
A man soon regrets his wife's New Year's Resolution.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When You Go to Townby  Susan Jordan
A chance encounter at a thrift store leads a divorced woman to ask, "Could I have gone the distance?"

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Violinby  Victor Jones
A poor musician down on his luck, pawns his only means of income, his violin. The pawnbroker discovers it's true value and tries to cheat the owner with a surprising outcome.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The King of Cornby  Jason K. Allen
Hopelessly lost in a corn maze, a young couple are rescued by a mystery man who bears a striking resemblance to the king of rock'n'roll. (Comic fable. 1 location, 3 characters. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Perennialsby  Donald Lewis
Paranoia takes root when a White suburban woman repeatedly receives business cards from a Mexican landscaper through her front door mail slot, sending her on a frantic mission to stop the invasion of her home.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Into The Fogby  Rade Mileusnic
After years of estrangement from their son, an elderly couple's cross-country drive through a dense, unsettling fog forces them to confront fading memories and a shared tragedy they can no longer outrun.

Genre: Drama
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Making Wavesby  Drew Larimore
A questioning isolated young man in rural Maine pursues a summertime tryst with a local merman.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mulligan'sby  John LaVine
A man sacrifices everything to go back in time to correct a life altering mistake, but his new life presents another obstacle he must overcome.

Genre: Fantasy
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
If you have ever been bullied at school or at the office, you will relate to this off the wall drama about exacting revenge on bullies.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Compelled to leave Kazakhstan due to political reasons, an idealistic migrant must overcome the challenges of integration and the distractions of an unexpected love while seeking justice and a new home.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Marlene's Last Sederby  Ron Brawer
When a middle-aged widow decides to honor her late husband's death -- a year ago on Passover -- by hosting her first seder, a Wisconsin late-winter blizzard, a drunken boyfriend, and an estranged mother-in-law almost turn the event into a disaster.

Genre: Family
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Mottoby  Dwayne Bricker
When a young nun's exorcism reveals a hidden system controlling papal succession, a skeptical priest teams with a Vatican archivist to uncover a centuries-old conspiracy rewriting the Church's history. As powerful forces move to contain the truth, he must decide whether exposing it will free the Churchor destroy the very institution billions depend on.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cycleby  Ayisha Henry
When a homebody decides to enjoy a fun night out, she must defeat an evil, biological nemesis who does everything to ruin her plans.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Truth & Treasuresby  Melissa Diane Hudson
When a seven-year-old girl is denied a life-changing school trip for telling the truth about her mother's deception, she embarks on a whimsical adventure to reclaim her lost opportunity, learning about the value of truth and the power of forgiveness along the way.

Genre: Family
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Rise of the Plutoniansby  Jason K. Allen
The Plutonians are a secret club that promotes and restores honor to those things that get no respect or have gone out of style: yo-yos, paper airplanes, VCR's, gluten, Pluto, and more. Albert wants to join, but he faces a difficult initiation process.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cold Moon Highby  Doug J Robbins
The dead walk up to the house, zombies and ghosts.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elevatorby  Carlos Alex Ceni
What was initially supposed to be a simple journey for two strangers is terrifyingly disrupted by the arrival of a third person.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Root Causeby  Iris Mangual
After discovering a mysterious glowing pod beneath the Atlantic Ocean, a young scientist becomes Earth's last hope when ancient celestial forces awaken to destroy the planet.

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Detective With Unique Talentby  Grag Raymond
Christina, an excellent police detective, has a unique talent to feel a murderer in a person and this helps to quickly reveal and catch him.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bump in the Nightby  Anthony Cawood
When a desperate young thief breaks into the wrong house, he discovers the elderly homeowners are far more dangerousand sinisterthan he could have ever imagined.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Doomsday for Dentonby  Anthony Cawood
A wannabe street fighter tries to boost his rep by going up against a legendary brawler from the past.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
I Told You Soby  S.C. Smith
A once-successful cryptocurrency investor, Michael Tanner, finds his empire destroyed overnight by a devastating crash, leading him into a spiraling journey of regret, desperation, and the harsh realization that the pursuit of wealth may have cost him everything that truly mattered.

Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lockdown Treasureby  STEVEN BLOWS
During a national lockdown caused by a virus pandemic, a curious 12-year-old girl and her persuasive younger brother set off on a hunt after finding a treasure map in their weekly online supermarket delivery.

Genre: Family
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Autumn Falls: The Beginningby  Jacob Enix
A masked killer wearing a grotesque pumpkin mask emerges in the quite town of Autumn Falls, forcing a group of friends to confront a terrifying reality: the legend of Jack is real, and they are his first victims.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cliff Effectby  Esra Cengel
An arrogant man persistently kicks a woman off a cliff, underestimating her pure love, and Karma eventually caught up with him in a tragic-comic way.

Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Man's Manby  Art D'Alessandro
Jake,15, readies for his first date, and good ol' dad is right in his corner, with tips on just how to handle a woman, but after Jake rides his scooter over to Sasha's house we find out more about their relationship, and how Jake's Pop got it all wrong.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
She Curses Like a Sailorby  Micheline Birger
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York. Two twenty-something artistes and a fifty-something writer explore various facets of whether it is 'ladylike' to curse - or not - in public - a philosophical comedy - of sorts. Are we too brash as a society? Too crass? Maybe - maybe not. You decide! Is America off the hook ? (Copyright Wash. DC) A play/ teleplay.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Agence Paradisby  Slobodan D. Pesic
A timid man visits a futuristic government agency where every human desire can be fulfilled. What begins as a simple request for a pair of sneakers spirals into an absurd chain of wishes exposing the fragile machinery of modern happiness and the divine comedy of human ambition.

Genre: Artistic
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Pizza Killerby  Ange Fassinou
A pizza delivery that leads to a massacre.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
You Can Never Go Backby  Lamar D. Vine
A lonely divorced introvert rekindles a forbidden affair with his unhappily married first love after 25 years apart, embarking on steamy weekend getaways filled with nostalgia and desire, but as their passionate escapes unravel into betrayal, deceit, and profound heartbreak, he must confront the painful illusion of second chances to ultimately forge a path of solitary freedom, nomadic travel, and self-reinvention abroad as a writer.

Genre: Romance
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Take My Handby  Jay Hodgkins
A serial killer seeks a cure for loneliness when he develops a special relationship with the severed hand of one of his victims, only to discover it points him in the direction of true love.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Chameleonby  Kevin Pacey
Life on the line, a teenage girl locks horns with an eccentric pensioner and learns to trust again.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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